Isaiah 7:18

New American Bible - revised edition

On that day The Lord shall whistle for the fly in the farthest streams of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria.

Cross References

Psalm 105:31

He spoke and there came swarms of flies, gnats through all their country.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they burned up like fire among thorns; in the Lord’s name I cut them off.

Exodus 8:21

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the land.”

Exodus 8:24

Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord, your God, in the wilderness, provided that you do not go too far away. Pray for me.”

Isaiah 13:5

They come from a far-off country, and from the end of the heavens, The Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy all the land.

Isaiah 31:1

Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses; Who put their trust in chariots because of their number, and in horsemen because of their combined power, But look not to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!

Isaiah 5:26

He will raise a signal to a far-off nation, and whistle for it from the ends of the earth. Then speedily and promptly they will come.

Isaiah 7:17

The Lord shall bring upon you and your people and your father’s house such days as have not come since Ephraim seceded from Judah (the king of Assyria).

Zechariah 10:8

I will whistle for them and gather them in; for I will redeem them and they will be as numerous as before.

Deuteronomy 1:44

Then the Amorites living in that hill country came out against you and put you to flight the way bees do, cutting you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will raise up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, that swoops down like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,

Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, the Lord, your God, will send hornets among them, until those who are left and those who are hiding from you are destroyed.

Joshua 24:12

And I sent the hornets ahead of you which drove them—the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites—out of your way; it was not your sword or your bow.